Social Media Power » YouTube http://www.socialmediapower.com Discover the Tools of Web 2.0! Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:58:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Video: Custom YouTube Player Workaround http://www.socialmediapower.com/2011/07/13/video-custom-youtube-player-workaround/ http://www.socialmediapower.com/2011/07/13/video-custom-youtube-player-workaround/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:15:20 +0000 Deltina Hay http://www.socialmediapower.com/?p=2970 Unfortunately, the YouTube custom player is no longer available to new users.

There are still ways to create a YouTube video gallery for your website or blog, however.

The latest entry in the Internet Empowerment Series of video tutorials, this video walks you through how to create a YouTube gallery using playlists:

The Social Media Survival Guide

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The latest entry in the WordPress segment of the Internet Empowerment Series of video tutorials, this video walks you through how to generate and implement a Facebook Like Box for your Website or blog:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3PEII13HpQ

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You don’t need to produce your own videos to have a YouTube custom player on your Website. Embedding a video gallery on your Website from YouTube is a lot easier than you think.

Presented by The Survival Guide to Social Media author, Deltina Hay, this tutorial shows you step-by-step how to create a YouTube video gallery for your Website:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZNg1g8wftM

]]> http://www.socialmediapower.com/2011/03/29/video-how-to-create-a-youtube-gallery-for-your-website/feed/ 1 Video: All in One SEO plugin for WordPress http://www.socialmediapower.com/2011/03/18/video-all-in-one-seo-plugin-for-wordpress/ http://www.socialmediapower.com/2011/03/18/video-all-in-one-seo-plugin-for-wordpress/#comments Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:41:28 +0000 Deltina Hay http://www.socialmediapower.com/2011/03/18/video-all-in-one-seo-plugin-for-wordpress/ When using WordPress to power your Website, you want to use a good SEO plugin to help your site get the best placement possible in the search engines.

The latest entry in the WordPress segment of the  Internet Empowerment Series of video tutorials, this video walks you through how to configure and maintain the All-In-One SEO Pack plugin for WordPress.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKBqEU7aU60

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The latest entry in our  Internet Empowerment Series of video tutorials, this video shows how to take advantage of Facebook’s new profile design by placing custom images along the top of your profile and page that align nicely with your profile image.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh0W3DAUxWY

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To that end, I created an entire WordPress tutorial presentation “in videos.” Check it out, below.

The idea is the Reader can watch the videos right within the presentation. A very nice step toward a rich-media experience anyone can create.

Great idea, SlideShare!

WordPress Tutorial In Videos

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YouTube’s TestTube is a testing ground for new features and tools that the YouTube team is considering adding to YouTube’s main functionality.

From the TestTube page:

“Welcome to TestTube, our ideas incubator. This is where YouTube engineers and developers test out recipes and concoctions that aren’t quite fully baked and invite you to tell us how they’re coming along. Your comments will help us improve and perfect the mixtures we’re working on. So jump in, play around, and send your feedback directly to the brains behind the scenes.”

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About the Author:

Deltina Hay is the author of the critically acclaimed book, A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization. The second edition of her book, renamed The Social Media Survival Guide, will be released in spring 2011. Learn more about Deltina, her books, and her availability for speaking engagements at Deltina.com. You may also enjoy listening to Deltina’s video tutorial series on YouTube: The Internet Empowerment Series.

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YouTube banners, buttons, and badges are sort of tucked away on the YouTube site. Here is a video that can help you find them:

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About the Author:

Deltina Hay is the author of the critically acclaimed book, A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization. The second edition of her book, renamed The Social Media Survival Guide, will be released in spring 2011. Learn more about Deltina, her books, and her availability for speaking engagements at Deltina.com. You may also enjoy listening to Deltina’s video tutorial series on YouTube: The Internet Empowerment Series.

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All you need do is place a link to a YouTube video within a tweet and your followers can view your video without leaving Twitter.

Here is an example:

Twitter video

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About the Author:

Deltina Hay is the author of the critically acclaimed book, A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization. The second edition of her book, renamed The Social Media Survival Guide, will be released in spring 2011. Learn more about Deltina, her books, and her availability for speaking engagements at Deltina.com. You may also enjoy listening to Deltina’s video tutorial series on YouTube: The Internet Empowerment Series.

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]]> http://www.socialmediapower.com/2010/12/02/social-media-tip-of-the-day-video-and-twitter/feed/ 0 Video: Finding Your Feed URLs http://www.socialmediapower.com/2010/09/29/video-finding-your-feed-urls/ http://www.socialmediapower.com/2010/09/29/video-finding-your-feed-urls/#comments Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:01:56 +0000 Deltina Hay http://www.socialmediapower.com/?p=697 Another time-saving strategy to use while streamlining or integrating your Social Web presence is to have all of your RSS feed URLs handy.

Most social sites make it easy for you to find your personal feed URL (also called a feed address), while others can be more challenging.

Your feed URL lists all your activity within a social site or service. These feeds consist of images, video, recent blog posts, presentations, tweets, whatever is relevant to a particular service.

This video shows you how to find your:

The video tutorial from the Internet Empowerment Series on YouTube also demonstrates methods for finding feed URLs on any site by using your Web browser or searching the site’s page source.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw2ePwWW-fg

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